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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 1998, 2:10 PM CST for Cheatham County, Tennessee. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 1998, 2:10 PM CST (20:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1998, 2:45 PM CST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cheatham County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 12:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 46 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBNA 032010 RRA TORBNA TNC021-032045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 210 PM CST FRI APR 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE TN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...NORTHERN CHEATHAM AT 210 PM CST DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF ASHLAND CITY MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE TOWNS OF CHAPMANSBORO AND PLEASANT VIEW TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. BOYD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 3:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 27 min |
| Apr 3, 12:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Franklin, Moore | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 12:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Humphreys | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 1:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Benton, Humphreys | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 1:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lincoln | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 1:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Stewart | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 1:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Houston | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 1:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Franklin | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 1:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 1:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Dickson, Humphreys | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 1:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 2:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Grundy, Marion | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 2:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 2:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Marshall | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 2:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 2:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 2:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 2:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sumner | 64 min |
| Apr 3, 2:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Warren | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 3:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Hickman, Williamson | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 3:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 3:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Smith, Trousdale, Wilson | 64 min |
| Apr 3, 3:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 61 min |
| Apr 3, 3:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon | 64 min |
| Apr 3, 3:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Grundy, Marion, Sequatchie | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 3:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 3:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Maury, Williamson | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 3:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lincoln | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 3:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Sumner | 47 min |
| Apr 3, 3:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 4:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Wilson | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 4:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 4:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 4:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Overton, Pickett | 65 min |
| Apr 3, 4:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 4:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 4:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford | 51 min |
| Apr 3, 4:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 4:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 4:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Franklin, Lincoln | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 4:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Maury | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 4:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | White | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 4:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Warren | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 4:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 5:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 5:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Lewis | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 5:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Van Buren, Warren | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 5:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys | 51 min |
| Apr 3, 5:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marion, Sequatchie | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 5:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Maury | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 5:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | White | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 5:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lincoln, Marshall | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 5:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Williamson | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 5:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Rutherford | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 5:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bledsoe | 51 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.